> After Phillips’s first few unsuccessful attempts to get black music heard by the world, B. B. King urged him to call nineteen-year-old Ike Turner, a bandleade

> After Phillips’s first few unsuccessful attempts to get black music heard by the world, B. B. King urged him to call nineteen-year-old Ike Turner, a bandleader in nearby Clarksdale, Mississippi. "B.B." stood for, in some stories, "Beale Street Blues Boy" I was lucky enough to host Greil Marcus (first name rhymes with "real" not "dial") at Google, and he's written very extensively on the power of the raw blues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wBlXAzv0Fg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wBlXAzv0Fg I'm pretty sure if you woke up Greil in the middle of the night and asked him to speak for two hours about Sun Records, he could do it.